Nun, 79, creates huge Buckfast Abbey mural
This abbey was last bought to mind when I saw a shelf full of tonic wine for sale in a garage in Stranraer. This reflects a better side of the place!!
A 79-year-old nun’s huge mural of the rebuilding of a Devon abbey’s church will be unveiled later.
The work, which measures 26ft (7.9m) by 18ft (5.4m), has been painted by Mother Joanna Jamieson, former Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire,
Buckfast Abbey church of St Mary’s, which was rebuilt by the monks, is getting a makeover to mark the abbey’s millennium in 2018.
The mural shows the monks rebuilding the abbey church between 1907 and 1939.